An employee walking along a thermal pipe at the Kamojang geothermalpower plant near Garut, West Java, on March 18. State utility provider Perusahaan Listrik Negara is targeting an additional 135 megawatts ofelectricity from three new geothermal plants. (Reuters Photo/Beawiharta)

So let me tell you what else they did. They just showed you what's wrong with nuclear power. "Safe to the maximum," they said. "Our devices are strong and cannot fail." But they did. They are no match for Gaia.

It seems that for more than 20 years, every single time we sit in the chair and speak of electric power, we tell you that hundreds of thousands of tons of push/pull energy on a regular schedule is available to you. It is moon-driven, forever. It can make all of the electricity for all of the cities on your planet, no matter how much you use. There's no environmental impact at all. Use the power of the tides, the oceans, the waves in clever ways. Use them in a bigger way than any designer has ever put together yet, to power your cities. The largest cities on your planet are on the coasts, and that's where the power source is. Hydro is the answer. It's not dangerous. You've ignored it because it seems harder to engineer and it's not in a controlled environment. Yet, you've chosen to build one of the most complex and dangerous steam engines on Earth - nuclear power.

We also have indicated that all you have to do is dig down deep enough and the planet will give you heat. It's right below the surface, not too far away all the time. You'll have a Gaia steam engine that way, too. There's no danger at all and you don't have to dig that far. All you have to do is heat fluid, and there are some fluids that boil far faster than water. So we say it again and again. Maybe this will show you what's wrong with what you've been doing, and this will turn the attitudes of your science to create something so beautiful and so powerful for your grandchildren. Why do you think you were given the moon? Now you know.

This benevolent Universe gave you an astral body that allows the waters in your ocean to push and pull and push on the most regular schedule of anything you know of. Yet there you sit enjoying just looking at it instead of using it. It could be enormous, free energy forever, ready to be converted when you design the methods of capturing it. It's time. …”

Monday, March 19, 2012

Govt to build solar cell company in West Java

Jakarta
(ANTARA News) - The Ministry of State Owned Enterprises plans to build a solar
cell company in Karawang, West Java, in response to the growing suggestions
that Indonesia should use more renewable energy and reduce its dependency on
fossil fuel, a minister said.

Dahlan Iskan. (ANTARA/Rosa Panggabean)

"The
company will produce a capacity of 60 megawatts per year, and the government
has planned to invest Rp500 billion. The company is expected to start
operations by November 2013," Minister of State Owned Enterprises Dahlan
Iskan said here on Monday.

Earlier,
Minister of Research and Technology Gusti Muhammad Hatta had said his ministry
was continuously studying the pattern of geothermal energy utilization in
Indonesia as part of the efforts to ready existing renewable energy sources for
tapping by 2025.

"My
ministry is continuously studying the utilization patterns since it has been
planned that in 2025 new renewable energy should be ready in large
amounts," he said.

Gusti added
that the National Energy Board (DEN) had predicted that the availability of
petroleum would deplete by 2020 so the preparation of renewable energy on a
large scale should be started early.

Oil may
still be available off the coast but it is deep inside the ocean and will
require the use of advance technology and high costs to obtain.

Therefore,
the renewable energy derived from various sources such as ocean currents, wind
and plants (bio-ethanol) must be reviewed for use, the minister explained.

"In
fact, in the near future we will be working on geothermal energy because we
(Indonesia, Red) has 44 percent of the world`s geothermal potential," he
noted.

The DEN
version guided by the blue print of National Energy Management 2004 mentions
that Indonesia`s energy source of fossil fuel, which is oil, will be exhausted
within 18 years, gas in 61 years, and coal in 147 years.

Currently
Indonesia needs as much as 1.5 percent of the world`s oil to reach 10.5 billion
tons.

Meanwhile,
Indonesia exports as much as 1.5 percent, which means that Indonesia`s ability
to produce oil takes care of 3 percent of the total oil consumption in the
world.

Earlier,
Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Jero Wacik said that renewable energy
in Indonesia has not been fully utilized, especially the abundant solar energy.

"Solar
energy is currently used only for drying coffee and during the tourist season,
even though it can be utilized optimally," he said.

Jero noted
that energy sources of oil will be exhausted but according to the data from the
National Energy Board, renewable energy is currently only 5 percent of the
total energy used.

So the
government is working towards making sure that renewable energy reaches a
minimum of 25 percent of the total energy used in 2025.

According
to the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, there are currently around 28
sources of geothermal energy with a potential of about 7,000 megawatts that
have been licensed for exploration by the Forestry Ministry.

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